Installing Notes 8 Gold on Ubuntu 7.0.4

As has been mentioned in the comments
of this thread over
on vowe.net, you can run Notes 8 on an Ubuntu Linux
Desktop. I just completed the Notes 8 installation atop a fresh install
of Ubuntu 7.0.4 (Feisty Fawn), and hit one little snag stemming from the
way Ubuntu handles "administrator" or "root" access.
Being new to Ubuntu this exact approach wasn't immediately apparent,
but after a little poking around the Notes 8 Forum
and little trial and error, here are the steps to success:

Download Package from IBM and
Extract it to your "home" directory

Open a terminal window by selecting
"Applications - Accessories - Terminal". You do this because
simply double-clicking on the setup.sh file will open the installer, but
you will have to close it on the second screen because you lack "administrator"
rights.

To overcome this, type the following
in the terminal window: sudo ./setup.sh

Proceed with the installation
wizard normally. Note that if you're using a 7-year-old Pentium III
733Mhz PC the installer window may take a minute or two to appear without
warning .

Update: In my rush to capture
the lessons for *installing* it, I suppose I should have tried to actually
*launch* Notes 8 before publishing this.

Turns out, there are two additional
steps required before that will work:

To even *see* "Lotus Notes
8" in the menu shown above, you'll need to either logout and back
in or restart altogether.

For anything to actually happen
when you try to launch, you'll need to change the "ownership"
of the new "lotus" directory found inside your home directory.
To do this, issue the following command from the Terminal: sudo chown
-R jsmith /home/jsmith/lotus/ (be sure to substitute "jsmith"
for your actual username - sorry, but it has to be said )

Comments

1 - I have never known a Notes version to require a "license" in the typical sense, but this doesn't sound like a Linux question per se. I'd post the question on the Notes 8 forum and I'm sure you'll get a quick answer.

5 - The instructions above got me well down the road, but I also had to change the owner and group permissions for the /opt/ibm folder and its contents. Now I have two obstacles: a) before the configuration wizard appears, I'm notified that there's no license for Lotus Notes and that it's under a 60-evaluation; and b) during configuration, I receive an error indicating that permissions are preventing pernames.ntf from being written or created. Any clues, anyone?

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